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You won’t be getting ‘The Bare Necessities’ with Andy Serki’s new telling of The Jungle Book, Mowgli. Will this score at the box office, or will audiences stay away in droves after shelling out $966 million globally to watch [...]

What superhero movie fatigue? Avengers: Infinity War is on track to score $247.1 million at the US box office over its first weekend – the second best opening of all time behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ $247.96 million – [...]

Movies In Focus first read Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male a couple of years ago after receiving it as a gift from a well read friend. The 1939 novel is a tight and taught tale about an English gent proving that he can assassinate a European [...]

The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four are two of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most well known Sherlock Holmes stories. They’ve been adapted for the screen numerous times, and these 1983 television films star Ian Richardson as the great [...]

Scott Cooper’s Black Mass is a well made film that trots out all the traditional gangster tropes. There’s little new on display here and if you’ve seen any Martin Scorsese gangster film then you won’t be surprised how things go down. The [...]

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Strange, the latest character in Marvel’s cinematic superhero onslaught. Cumberbatch has his hardcore fans and the Marvel lovers are fervent in their dedication to the movies. Will this be the movie [...]

UK born legend Simon Pegg is known not only as an actor but a comedian, screenwriter, producer, singer and director. He has worked extensively in both TV and film and has starred alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest names such as Tom Cruise, [...]

It boggles the mind to think that Zoolander was released in 2001. Time waits for no man and it sure doesn’t wait for male models. This belated sequel is designed to give fans of the first movie another dose of everything they loved about the [...]

The Victorian-set special for Sherlock has been without a title until now. This changed with the announcement that the feature length episode will be called The Abominable Bride. I don’t know if that gives away much of the plot – but it [...]

Want to see more of the Sherlock special that sees Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman’s Doctor Watson transported back to the Victorian era? Then check it out below. Earlier in the year Movies In Focus was on the set of [...]

The Force is strong with Benicio De Toro – well it might be, if he wants it. The Oscar-winning actor has been offered the villain role in Star Wars Episode VIII. Rian Johnson is set to helm the next instalment of the Star Wars saga, which is [...]